When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a new reinforcement learning (RL) framework that helps train large language models (LLMs) for complex agentic tasks ...

Artificial intelligence for formal mathematical reasoning startup Harmonic AI Inc. announced today that it has raised $120 million in new funding on a $1.45 billion valuation. The funding is intended ...

Ribbit Capital Leads Round at $1.45B Valuation of Math-Based AI Venture; Emerson Collective Joins Existing Backers Including Sequoia & Kleiner Perkins PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harmonic, the ...

Gemini 3 is Google’s latest AI model, offering improvements in reasoning, coding, and multimodal analysis. New features include the Gemini Agent tool and generative interfaces, such as visual layout ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on Oct 6, 2025 at 12:55 ...

A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an ...

Last week, when OpenAI launched GPT-5, it told software engineers the model was designed to be a “true coding collaborator” that excels at generating high-quality code and performing agentic, or ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)-backed OpenAI on Thursday unveiled GPT‑5, its best AI system yet. The AI model has state-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, health, and visual perception, ...

Grok 4 and its reasoning-focused counterpart, Grok 4 Heavy, arrived with an immediate sense of ambition, offering multimodal AI designed to handle coding, logic, and perception tasks. In the initial ...

ChatGPT's o3 is OpenAI's best model to date because it features reasoning, and it might get even better in the next update. As spotted on X, OpenAI is testing a new "Alpha" variant of the o3 model, ...